Do you think time machine will ever be invented?

Philippines
August 10, 2010 1:13am CST
I don't think so. I'll try to explain why, but this is complicated. If it WILL be invented in the future, then it should be popping around now here in the present. Because in the future, the present is the past. And in the past, the present is the future. So time exists in the past, the present and the future at the SAME time. Did you get my point? I won't blame you if you don't. But what about you? What do you think?
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@xannex (254)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
LOL! True! They should be popping here by now. For me, time machine will have something to do with learning blackholes which still at present are hard to understand and no professionals have pinned the concept yet.. so no for me too..
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• Philippines
10 Aug 10
blackholes and loopholes. or are they the same? quantum physics?
@sagar21 (1579)
• India
11 Aug 10
now what black magic...
@xannex (254)
• Philippines
12 Aug 10
Blackholes are not loopholes, I think... It's a phenomenon that really is happening. I think it's a quantum physics thing so it's not a black magic!...
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@Christoph56 (1504)
• Canada
11 Aug 10
I love wild, hypothetical physics concepts, and time travel falls into that quite often, because it's something we've always wanted... but what would it do? One idea, is that time travel backwards would shift space-time, as seen in movies like "Back to the Future", and there's the idea that if you killed your grandmother before your mother was born, you couldn't exist. But, the idea of string theory and parallel dimensions changes that around, because if you went back in time, it would make a new dimension of the past, where the future isn't written yet. Think of it like a river of time (as said by Einstein) and going back in time would be creating a new path for the river to go, off of the original. In that case, you could change anything, and it wouldn't effect you, or anything from the time you came from. If that's how it works, then time travel into the past could be possible, just that it would be impossible for us to meet those time travelers in our dimension. Traveling to the future, however, is easy. If you want to time travel to 8 hours in the future, just go to sleep, and you'll be there! For bigger trips, there's the idea of freezing yourself (which still has never worked, but we'll see) or just traveling fast. Time and Speed are relative to eachother, so the faster you go, the slower time goes. If you were going at about half of lightspeed, and made a giant loop to go away, then back to earth again, and the trip took about a year to make, you'd only be older by 1 year, but earth would be about 100 years older. Bad part about that, is that you'd have no idea what you'd be traveling to, and there's no way you could tell people about it in the past. In 100 years, earth could be destroyed, or taken over by an evil group of people... or it could be a perfect utopia, but you wouldn't understand anything when you got there. With how fast we've been changing over the past 100 years, who knows what the world will be like 100 years from now. On your idea that past present and future are existing at the same time, that would mean that the past is still going on, and that we are on a set path, that we can not change. Its really better to think of it that the past is written and done, and we can't change that, but the future is open to anything, so we should all make the absolute most of it!
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• Philippines
11 Aug 10
Interesting. Yes you are right that it is better to think of the past is written and done, and we can't change that, but the future is open to anything, so we should all make the absolute most of it. But the fact is, our past is just happening somewhere else right now, or atleast can be seen as happening somewhere else right now. Yes it is possible for us be able to see our past but we can never do anything to change it. We can not go back to past but it is possible to see it. And to the future? Maybe there can be loopholes to go straight into the future, like you said something about getting frozen, or just by freezing time itself by going outer space and then going back to Earth. But we can not go back and forth in time. That is just not possible.
• United States
11 Aug 10
that is very interesting
@gjabaigar (2200)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
If time is invented there will be a very big error, the error may ended up on a point of just an empty space or it may missed where the place of the Earth should be. Or might end-up on another dimensions. Tah. Tah. All around and everything in this universe are constantly moving, there is no such thing as stand still. Deep meditations, the body can sense or feel the Earth's movement in space. Every Earth's movement point of space are unique. The Earth spins or revolves around the Sun, doesn't goes back to where it should always be, the Earth actually spinning spirally on space. Not only the Earth but everything the planets, stars including the sun, galaxy and much, much more. So to invent a time machine it will not only depends on the Earth but also everything in the universe.
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• Philippines
10 Aug 10
Good point there. We can not just manipulate the time here on Earth. Everything is connected. We might possibly see what happened in the past, but we can not and never will get back to the past.
• United States
12 Aug 10
I not only get your point, I totally agree. It would, however, be very cool if we were able to pop around from one era to another, just as an adventure. As pointed out in many sci-fi pieces, though, we'd have to be very careful not to do anything to make changes, or history would be drastically impacted, possible horribly so!
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• Philippines
14 Aug 10
Yeah it's cool and scary.
• United Arab Emirates
10 Aug 10
I get you point. But how will the time machine be...will it take the man to the past or future or will it just take his imagination. I dont ever think the time machine will be created.
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• Philippines
10 Aug 10
You if they can just see us? Or can actually touch us? Well on the movies they appear as real as you and me. But what great consequences it will cause if that will be the case.
• United States
11 Aug 10
No, I don't think a time machine will be invented. If there is some way to invent one, it probably has to do with wormholes or something like that. But if we do invent one at some point, I don't think we'll be using it. Hopefully not, because someone might steal it, or someone might go into it and mess something up and everything might be upside-down. I really don't think we'll be able to invent a time machine. It just doesn't seem possible, it seems more like a natural-type thing, like wormholes, I don't think the power to go back or forward in time is capable in being in our hands.
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@saphrina (31552)
• South Africa
11 Aug 10
And here i thought we can test this on your mom, sweetie. TATA.
@alottodo (3056)
• Australia
14 Aug 10
You are at the present time right? well if it's in the future how can you see it now?...or maybe is all around us and we have not the capability to see it? have you thougth about that?...humans are not as inteligent as they think they are we still have a lot to learn.
@alottodo (3056)
• Australia
15 Aug 10
Well for one thing we will never be able to control Earth...and because the Universe is Universal...oh you got me confused now!let me see...if someone invented the time machine in the past and people from the past have visited us in our present time which it is always as it if so how do we know there is not a time machine? after all...but any way only the future will tell, which is today...because the present is just always as it is. Ok now Im in a pickle!
• Philippines
14 Aug 10
Yes we still have a lot to learn. On your question on how can we see it now if it is from the future, well it is a time machine It is supposed to be not bounded by time. Whether it is the past or future. I will not talk about the present because the present is just always as it is. But the other poster explained it clearer than I did. He said something about the universe and the impossibility to control it. We might control Earth in the future but we can never control the UNIVERSE itself. And in controlling/manipulating time, it is UNIVERSAL.
• Philippines
15 Aug 10
And so am I!
@ANIME123 (2466)
• United States
11 Aug 10
I don't think that a time machine will ever be invented because we just don't know how to do that you know theres only so much we can do since we are human. Still many believe that a time machine will be invented, but I don't know that is just to hard for me to believe right there.
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@manbir84 (134)
• India
12 Aug 10
I think you are free nowdays thats why you thought these kind of things but this is not bad.Yes I agree with you it is not possible for human to get control on time because only God is greater than time nothing can match it.If time machine will invent then it will only show us different time period like a movie but we will not be able to change time.Thats my thinking.
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@hushi22 (4928)
10 Aug 10
we never know. i don't know if i wish it to happen. i am curious but i wonder what the consequence would be if it would be of greater advantage or not.
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@sagar21 (1579)
• India
11 Aug 10
if we use it for good..then certainly..
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
time machine will never be invented? for time is God's made. it can not be hold by man. do you agree? If time will be invented everything will be change. And that's not a good idea.
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@sagar21 (1579)
• India
11 Aug 10
don't be that hopeless..sorry I was telling ma self.. someday in future..
@twistzao (71)
• Portugal
11 Aug 10
Hope it isn't invented. Time is to be lived, not to try to get more back. Thinkabout the problems that would bring, we could bring terrorists back, if we change our live in a little think, that can change somebody else life really bad.
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• India
11 Aug 10
Certainly I got your point, this is what I was also thought when I was watching 'Back to the future' Movie series. Time machine is a good imagination but can't be invented in future. Time can't be stopped and can't be rewinded. Even a single second can't be played back.
@choconut (297)
• Philippines
11 Aug 10
i agree, i don't think time machines will be invented, because that will just disrupt the time space. And beside past is past and today's a present and tomorrow (future) is a mystery. We can't live in those three time space at the same time. And also i would like to have a mystery to unfold for tomorrow, a surprise! Time machines are just fictional invention, it can never be made. God bless (",)
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• United States
15 Aug 10
I don't think any of today's brains are smart enough to do it.
@redhotpogo (4401)
• United States
11 Aug 10
No. You can't go to the past because it's already gone,and you can't go to the future because it hasn't happened yet. There are no dimensions of time and space. It's an interesting thought, and nice to day dream about the possibilities of such a thing. But it is not reality. In order for you to be able to go back in time there would need to be a piece of you left in every moment of time. The smallest fractions of time. Imagine what that would look like. Because it would be visible with that much of you breaking off. You would be like a blur of light or gas. Probably something like a ghost or soul. You can't go back into the past, because then it would change the present, and the present can't be changed unless you are there. The past effects the present. And you can't go into the future, because the present effects the future, and if you're not in the present then there is no future. You can only exist where you are at right now.
@K46620 (1986)
• United States
11 Aug 10
I don't think so either; I don't see how it would be possible.
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
well, its possible watch this one http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/2057-time-travel.html i dont know if its the whole episode. but the one segment about two scientist carrying a clock in a jetplane. is really a statement that its possible.
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
The video is currently unavailable. I am just guessing about what it is about. Is it about time zones? Or the fact that the higher you get the slower time is?
@gaboni (644)
• Israel
11 Aug 10
Hahaha, hilarious! I actually, think it is for the best that such thing will never be invented. The human's nature is destructive and the time line is very fragile, even small change in the past will effect that present and the future. Therefore I hope that time machine will never be invented, and want to believe in it.
16 Aug 10
yes, if Albert Eistein is alive or He has an apprentice who is more intelligent that him.In his book to the theory of relativity. he got a formula that a human can time travel if he is faster than the light.and that is only my opinion.